Posted on 12/18/2015 9:35:42 AM PST by aimhigh
Contrary to what many drivers believe, there is no federal law that prohibits truck drivers from carrying guns in their trucks as long as they adhere to local and state laws. However, many carriers prohibit company drivers from carrying weapons. Says Brian: "Even when I was a company driver I carried even though the employee handbook stated that it was against company policy. I'd rather get fired because I've got it than to need it and end up in a box underground because I didn’t have it."
James Lamb, chairman of the Small Business and Transportation Coalition claims that he has 11,000 signatures on a petition backing a bill he authored called "Mike's Law" named for Michael Boeglin, a 31-year old Owner-Operator who last year was shot to death inside his truck. Boeglin had parked by an abandoned building that had been stripped of metal by people collecting scrap to sell. He was to pick up a load at a nearby steel plant.
Mike's law would make it legal for working truckers to carry their weapons throughout the United States. "We drafted this bill. Immediately we got Senator [Marco] Rubio behind it and we just needed a co-sponsor in the House and we had trouble with it. Everybody that we’d gone to, every representative in the House that typically supports gun rights, has consulted the NRA (National Rifle Association) and the NRA has indicated that it does not like the bill and that they would not support it."
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A POTUS, with just a pen and a phone, can make interstate possession/carry a non-issue.
Sure. Just tell him it will benefit the Mexican truck drivers, too.
The law is probably too narrow in scope. What about all the other people who work in a vehicle and are prohibited from carrying a gun by their employer who is sitting in a office: taxi drivers, delivery drivers, utility workers, craftsmen, etc?
The I-69 Corridor!
First one who ^CAN’T^ tell the cops what happened...loses!
Shoot first and then ask for names.
“as long as they adhere to local and state laws.”
Got my CCW a few years ago, at that time I realized the laws vary state to state quite a bit. Since the very nature of over the road trucking is to move between states, one would probably need a lawyer riding shotgun to make sure you were always in compliance.
If only Reginald Denny was carrying. There would be several fewer gangbangers sucking up precious oxygen.
I drove for Trailways for two years. A large number of bus passengers are crazy, druggies, or both. I couldn’t carry a gun but I did carry a telescoping baton. We had one driver stabbed. The boss had a CCW and carried when he drove.
There are several free apps that are very good for keeping you legal.
North Carolina state law, however, prohibits weapons from being carried in commercial vehicles... or it used to, anyway. I knew a DMV cop who busted truckers all the time for this.
As an OTR driver in the 1990’s, I can tell you we were forbidden to carry in the cab, concealed or otherwise.
That didn’t stop a lot of drivers, especially the owner-operators...
Tell me about it. What a difference between bus and commuter train. I normally commute in and out of Grand Central for Metro North and the passengers are mostly clean cut business people. Once I had to get to New Jersey so I got on a bus out of Port Authority station across town. Station and bus was full of smelly people in sneakers and sweatpants. Bum Central. Next time I need to get across the Hudson, I'm going Uber.
Could You name a few for the Left Coast?
Thanks
Perhaps Ryan could put it in the next budget bill so he can strip it back out for the Democrats.
Which makes civil disobedience likely.
If all else fails, go on You Tube and make your own experiments.
If you search CCW Google Play the #1 free app is CCW. There is a paid option called Posted. It is interactive and allows you to plan ahead to avoid businesses and places that are posted as no guns.
My dad always carried a .38 revolver when he drove a truck. He said the cops could kiss his rear end, he was going to protect himself regardless of what the law said.
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